I think flushing is a myth heres why

We all know they say you should flush before harvest or you will get inferior bud that smokes harsh and tastes like crap chemicals. Well I only flushed 3 days before harvest because I was forced to. I found out one of my girls hermied, so rather than do a 2 week flush and risk smoking big fat seeds, i only flushed 3 days before harvest,

My plants hung to dry for 3-4 days, and after a 1 week cure i am hitting stuff off he pipe that tastes fine and is not "harsh" to me at all. The leftover ash is white too. The only problem I find is occasional crackling from the immature seeds in my bud, or it could just be the moisture leftover since my cure is not quite done, but it's no big deal the stuff gets me high like a kite and doesn't make me cough or feel bad in the throat, so I think flushing is a myth tbh and i wont be doing it in the future, its all about the dry and cure.

how is flushing a myth if you flushed 3 days prior to harvest. It is not a myth at all I have tried to feed all the way through and threw over 2 oz into the bubble bags due to harshness burned and crackled when lit black ash clearly taste of chemicals ETC. it also depends what nutrients you use if organic or synthetic but you say its a myth but you still flushed so your experiment is incomplete

I don't flush anymore, flushing is not a myth to those who believe in it I have been a proponent of flushing and have left that camp, been there done that and not going back.

My ladies bathe in a reservoir that is 1.1 EC - 1.5 EC from start of veg to end of bloom, always have great smoke; I don't really care what color my ashes are!

regards,

flushing IS a myth...sorry

Flushing is not a myth and can be very beneficial for the plant.

Now saying that flushing is not necessary if you feed your plant properly.

/end of flushing not flushing argument.

I flush every time I use the toilet...so not a total myth.

I have a friend that I mentor that swears by it, I just let him go. I don't flush. I've done both ways, proper dry and cure make the difference not flushing.

Hilltop112 said:

Flushing is not a myth and can be very beneficial for the plant.

Now saying that flushing is not necessary if you feed your plant properly.

/end of flushing not flushing argument.

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this is so true, flushing is necessary to fix problems or may be very necessary in hydro. BUt a plant that has been fed properly and doesn't have a salt build up, shouldn't need to be flushed.

ignorance!

flushing is no myth.. and if u dont find a diffrence between flushed and unflushed weed. u just arent on tha level yet

theexpress said:

flushing is no myth.. and if u dont find a diffrence between flushed and unflushed weed. u just arent on tha level yet

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that's possible i'm willing to concede that, since i don't claim to be an aficionado i have to say maybe i just can't detect the difference. i am trying real hard though, seeing if i can "taste" the nutes that were not properly flushed out. from a pipe and a spliff i can't tell, the smoke is pretty smooth to me and leaves no harsh feeling in my throat. maybe if i tried a vaporizer or a bong i could find the smoke less pleasant?

Keep in mind there are two types of "flushing".

"Flushing" to fix root issues, where you run a LOT of h2o through the medium one time. People usually say 3 to 5 times as much h2o as the size of pot you are using.

And "flushing" at the end of the plant's life for multiple days to even a week+.



You'll notice that most people don't do side by sides.

Do a side by side.

Once you do, you'll stop doing the second type of flushing I mentioned above.



"that's possible i'm willing to concede that,"



I'm not willing to concede that, as it's just plain not true.

Been growing for a little while, 10+ years. The past ~5+ of them exclusively in hydro. Can pull an lb+ from a 600w no problem.

There's no difference in flushed and unflushed weed (again, the second type I mentioned above).

I just recently did a true side by side. One plant unflushed, the other plant flushed with pure water for a week.

******Even other people****** can't tell the difference between the flushed and unflushed (blind taste tests they don't even know they're a part of).

It's the same.

The exact same.

IMO flushing is necessary and for a variety of reason. First off. When I flush for a week at the end of the cycle I see my buds swell up up more in that period then any other stage. What happened is the built up salts will be washed away during the flush, or they will be absorbed into the plant. With some nutrrients a longer flush is necessary to help clear up any unwanted salts in the plant. If your able to keep your plants healthy threw the whole harvest, then a 2 week flub should start to turn those leaves yellow an make an obvious sign it's ready for harvest without stressing them to pop out seeds..

And by the way. A flush for a week isn't gonna cause a bunch of seeds to poop out, it was something else most likely a week prior or maybe earlier. Seeds take time to develope. Don't just pop out over night. Lol

i sometimes flush my toilet

Not another "flush!!!!" "don't flush!!!!" argument lol

i have the simplest way of proving flushing does nada for the taste of buds.. here goes..
if it made one bit of difference in the taste of buds, everyone would simply flush as unflushed buds would taste like dog shit, chemically doo doo, w/e it is the flushers say it does..
the simple fact is that this is not true, there fore the debate continues.. there is nothing that dumping tons of water through the dirt of a plant is going to do for the taste of said plant.. i'll never understand how people think that by dumping tons of water through a medium will every have one effect on the taste of buds..
do a proper dry and cure, it's all that's needed for the finest tasting cannabis you'll ever have... leave the flushing for deuces..

theexpress said:

flushing is no myth.. and if u dont find a diffrence between flushed and unflushed weed. u just arent on tha level yet

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im so tired of this topic...if you think flushing actually works im HAPPY to not be on ''that level''...cause i would still have ALOT of learn

I had unflushed weed once, put it in the microwave to dry. The shit sparked from the salts im assuming. I water cured it and it didn't happen again. I also tried the microwave drying with properly flushed weed and didn't spark. You may not taste the difference but that shit is there and you'll be smoking it. Flush.

1blazeking said:

I had unflushed weed once, put it in the microwave to dry. The shit sparked from the salts im assuming. I water cured it and it didn't happen again. I also tried the microwave drying with properly flushed weed and didn't spark. You may not taste the difference but that shit is there and you'll be smoking it. Flush.

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please tell me how dumping water through a medium like soil is goring to remove these salts that are in the buds?? i'd love to know simply for the fact that biology doesn't work that way.. if it did, people who say that if you dump cherry kool aid into the soil you will get buds that taste like cherry kool aid.. basically the same exact thing, and we all know how true the cherry kool aid flavored buds thing is..

read more....3 days prior isnt a flush....a "FLUSH" starts at least 2 wks prior to harvest....a flush = watering plants with 3x the water of pot size they're growing in...so a 3gal pot requiors a 9gal flush then water the rest of the cycle....a plant needs to feed on only water for at least the last two weeks...to ensure all nutes are out of it..3x the water gets rid of remaining nutes in soil..but the plant has stored nutes in fan leaves the entire grow..so how it even make sence that all that storage can be used by the plant in 3 days prior to harvest...is beyond me....you got a lot to learn!!!!!!

racerboy71 said:

please tell me how dumping water through a medium like soil is goring to remove these salts that are in the buds?? i'd love to know simply for the fact that biology doesn't work that way.. if it did, people who say that if you dump cherry kool aid into the soil you will get buds that taste like cherry kool aid.. basically the same exact thing, and we all know how true the cherry kool aid flavored buds thing is..

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I'm just sharing my experience. Could have been coincidence with the flushed weed but sure wasn't with the water cured weed. It went from sparking to not sparking in the microwave after the water cure. Does flushing help remove salts by stopping the uptake of nutes/salts so the plant can perspire them or some shit? I think so, but can't prove it. I'd have to do a hundred grows of flushing/not flushing to do that.

I get your point though that it seems unlikely that a physical object like salt can just come off the buds with the flushing of the soil. Then again, salt comes out of our pores. Im not an expert horticulturist so I don't know what plants do in regards to salts, whether it just continues to accumulate and the plant does nothing with it or not.